Garment-supporter.



No. 859.025. PATENTED JULY 2, 1907. P. H. SUDBROGK. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 17, 1906.

1- s NORRIS Psrpns cc., WASHINGTON. n. c.

PETER HUGO SUDBROOK, OF NEW MELLE, MISSOURI.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Applicatioufiled March 17,1906. Serial No. 306,600.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER HUGO SUDBRocK, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at New Melle, in the county of St. Charles andState of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements inGarment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in garment supporters, and isdesigned to provide a simple, cheap and effective construction offastening for attachment to the ends of suspenders to support overallsand like garments in such a manner as to prevent casual disconnection ofthe buttons of the overalls therefrom. The device may, however, begenerally employed as a garment supporter wherever it may be used.

In the accompanying drawing,-Figure 1 is a front elevation of a garmentsupporte: embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectionof the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, indicating the action of theparts when the buckle is swung open.

The device is constructed of spring wire and embodies a buckle loop 1and a suspending member 2. The loop 1 is approximately of U-form and isprovided at the free ends of its arms with eyes 3 for pivotallyconnecting it with the suspending member, as hereinafter described.

The wire of which the suspending member is formed is intermediately bentor folded upon itself to form a hook 4 to receive and engage the buttonupon the trousers or other garment. At the extremity of the shank of thehook the limbs of the wire are bent laterally in opposite directions andthen bent inwardly to form the respective terminals or arms 5 and G ofan elongated transverse loop 7, the portion 5 being of greater-lengththan the portion 6 and projecting above and beyond the bill of the hook4, the lower member of the arm 5 being offset to form a guard 8 inalinement with the bill and to provide a contracted throat or entrance 9to the hook through which the button may pass in engaging the suspendingmember with and disengaging it therefrom. It will thus be seen that theshank of the hook 4 and the guard 8 are arranged upon opposite sides ofthe vertical center of the loop 7, the latter being thus eccentricallymounted upon the shank. By this arrangement the bight of the hook isbrought to lie in the center line of the loop, thus bringing thesupporting strain in the proper plane. The throat is of such restrictedsize and is so located that while it will permit of the freemanipulation of the suspending member in moving the latter into and outof engagement with the button, it will also prevent to a maximum extentany liability of the hook becoming disengaged from the button from theplay of the latter in the movements of the body of the wearer.

The upper horizontally disposed portions 5 and 6 of the arms 5 and 6,which form the upper side of the loop 7, and which are disposed inparallel relation to the lower horizontally disposed portions 5 and 6 ofsaid arms, which form the lower side of the loop, are spaced apart, andthe terminals of the Wire extend upwardly at right angles therefrom toprovide parallel tongues 10 to engage the suspender end in sortedthrough the loop 1 and thereby securely fasten the supporter thereto.The guard 8, as shown, is formed upon and depends from the portion 5 andthe ends 7 and 7 of the loop are curved and connect the respectiveportions 5 and 5 and 6 and 6 The eyes 3 of the loop 1 are pivotallymounted upon the curved end portions 7 and 7 at or near the points ofjunction of said end portions with thehorizontally disposed portions 5and 6 thus allowing said loop 1 to have pivotal movement on the loop 7in fastening or unfastening the support from the suspender end. Thecross bar of the loop l bears against the rear of the tongues 10 and isheld thereagainst by the spring action of the end portions of the loop7. This spring action is secured by mounting the eyes 3 upon the curvedend portions 7 and 7 which exert pressure on the eyes 3 to normally holdthe loop in closed position. When the loop 1 is opened or swungbackward, the action of the eyes 3 on the curved end portions 7 and 7also causes the portions 5 and 6 to be sprung back, thus throwing atorsional strain on the curved end portions or placing them undertension so that they are in effect converted into spring loops acting toswing the loop 1 back against the tongues 10. Also in the openingmovement of the loop 1, the eyes 3, swinging on the curved end portions,exert an outward pressure thereon, which tends to spread the parts 5 and6 of the loop 7, whereby the spring action of the end portions 5 and 6is increased. The free terminal of the suspender end, after beingengaged with the tongue, may be inserted downward through the loop 7,which will thus act as a retaining loop to hold said terminal inposition.

It will thus be seen that my invention provides a simple construction ofsupporter which is effective for its intended purpose and is designed tobe readily employed as a general fastening member for support-- ing andconnecting the parts of garments.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

As a new and improved article of manufacture, a garment supportercomprising a hook member formed of a single piece of wire, the wirebeing doubled and bent to form an engaging hook, and having its branchesseparated and bent outwardly in opposite directions and thence inwardlyto form a transverse receiving loop having divided upper and lowerhorizontal arms whose branches are connected by curved end portions, thebranches of the upper arm being bent to form tongues and the shank ofthe hook eccentrically connected with the lower arm of the loop in linewith one of said tongues, and said lower arm of the loop having one ofits branches bent to form a guard lying in line with the other tongueand projecting toward and spaced from the bill of the hook, and a bucklemember having eyes pivotally mounted upon the curved and poitions of theloop, at or near the points of junction of said end portions with thehorizontal branches of the upper arm of the loop, for coaction with thetongues.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PETER- HUGO SUDBROCK.

Witnesses FRED. HOEFNER, A. C. HOEFNER.

